Posted on 09/25/2016 4:20:37 PM PDT by blam
Tyler Durden
Sep 25, 2016 7:10 PM
A recent Harvard study of the demographics of gun ownership in the United States yielded a fairly shocking discovery, namely the emergence of the Obama gun "Super Owner." The study, entitled "The Stock and Flow of US Firearms: Results from the 2015 National Firearms Survey", was conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health and found that just 14% of all gun owners, or 7.6mm adults and 3% of the total U.S. population, possessed 50% of all guns owned by civilians in the country. Moreover, with a total stock of 270mm civilian-owned guns in the U.S., that implies that these "super owners" possess an average of nearly 18 guns per person.
Gun owning respondents owned an average of 4.85 firearms (range: 1-140); the median gun owner reported owning approximately two guns. As can be seen in Figure 3, approximately half (48%) of gun owners report owning 1 or 2 guns, accounting for 14% of the total US gun stock, while those who own 10 or more guns (8% of all gun owners), own 39% of the gun stock. Put another way, one half of the gun stock (~130 million guns) is owned by approximately 86% of gun owners, while the other half is owned by 14% of gun owners (14% of gun owners equals 7.6 million adults, or 3% of the adult US population).
Another startling discovery in the data, though "oddly" not highlighted in the report, is that the surge in gun ownership per capita seemed to coincide with the start of the Obama presidency and growing rhetoric over new gun regulations.
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“Civilians” don’t own these guns....
CITIZENS own them!
They'll have to take your buns from your cold, dead oven?
Agreed. First thing I thought. I suspect the author fabricated his results to support whatever false hypothesis he wanted to promote. Alinsky Rule # 1 - 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people.
The “study” had so many flaws that John Lott didn’t even know where to start.
Their methodology was to survey a small number of people and extrapolate the results. I suspect that type of study is unlikely to provide very accurate results due to the widely varying rates of ownership in different areas of the country, and the fact that in some areas with high populations firearms ownership is highly regulated and there may be many firearms owners who will not admit they own firearms.
Harvard researchers are baffled, can find no correlation...
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Seriously people . . . if we were a problem, you’d know it.
I have been guilty, in the past, of thinking that a pistol was only for shooting people. But as you point out, if so they sure don’t do much of a job of it.The conclusion can only be that that is not their purpose at all. Their purpose is obviously what gun owners say - to convince people considering abusive behavior that it is not safe to act on that idea.
< I seriously cannot wait until Trump is sworn in so these ridiculous government studies cease.
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Trump’s going to need extreme protection with the MB in the WH and the administration, HRC and her goons, Soros and the NWO Illuminatists, Obama’s ISIS goons, etc...he better be fully shielded and packing everywhere he goes from now until Nov 8
bullcrap
I believe this has been debunked. They’re mostly counting NFA items like machine guns, short barrel rifles & gun mufflers.
I’m more of a 7.62mm adult.
Lol!! A truer post was never made. I love it.
I voted for hillary twice on robo polls this week. Why the hell would anyone let a pollster know about their gun ownership?
So, don’t dare to come on my property to confiscate my guns because all of my lost or stolen guns will bury you in firepower....
“They’re just trying to build a case that gun owners are too few to worry about at election time.”
More guns in fewer hands, yadda yadda yadda.
Based solely upon gun owners refusing to answer pollsters’ questions, “How many guns do you own and do you have suicidal tendencies?”
This is going to bite the Hillary people in the @zz big time in November. They’ll be like Custer, “Where did all these f***ing Indians come from!!?”
Yeah,
Miss Ole Mike.
His blog seems to be over as well.
Rest in Peace ,Old Smuggler.
I haven’t made multiple purchases on individual NICS background checks, but I will say that I’ve had five or more such background checks in Obama’s second term alone.
That's a very important distinction. Thank you for catching it.
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